It takes a day or two (depending on how cranky the internal CI cluster is) to certify the final build. We generally say “some time in the second week of each month” to leave things a bit of room to breathe.

13.7.9 failed on build validation testing and so is no longer a candidate for the 13.7 release. Most of the core dev team is currently at the Chef Rally event so it might be late today or tomorrow before we try for a 13.7.10. Remember that all builds are always tagged in git, that is not an indicator of something being a stable candidate on its own.

Unfortunately the final release process bits are only visible to Chef Software employees as build management is a service they provide to the community. I’ve grumbled about this but it really would be a metric ton of work to harden the Jenkins system et al and it’s not usually much of a problem. We provide a Release Announcement topic on this Discourse you can subscribe to for updates when releases are ready. You can also grab any continuous build from the current channel if you want to test it out yourself.